Our guest speaker Mark Tatum is Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the NBA joined by arena host and hype man for the Golden State Warriors, Franco Finn. Our first API Futures episode touches on the experiences of being biracial and how our upbringing shapes who we become as leaders. We also discuss Ascend’s research paper on The Diversity-Equity Gap in the Fortune 500 where we discovered that Fortune 500 companies with a diverse workforce doesn’t always translate to equitable executive leadership roles.